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Curious to see Storyboard Suite in action on your hardware? Our pre-built and packaged demos make it easy for you to test drive different types of applications designed for specific hardware platforms, letting you experience the powerful controls and smooth animations that create beautiful UIs and rich user experiences.

Storyboard applications are scalable across a variety of screen sizes and resolutions. Experience this on 480 x 272 and 800 x 480 displays with Storyboard demo images for the Microchip SAMA5D2 platform. These images include everything you need to get up and running in minutes, offering the following demos in both resolutions:

With 2015 winding down, we are busy preparing for an exciting start to 2016 with our much-anticipated Storyboard Suite 4.2 release and a number of technology shows. First up is CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, January 6-9. If you are planning to be at the show and want to connect with us, send us an email. We’d be happy to show you demos of GUIs built with Storyboard Suite and give you a sneak peek at features we’ve been working on for our upcoming release.

Storyboard Suite GUI demos at CES

CES is an opportunity for companies to show off the latest in tech, so you’ll see a lot of cool products and cutting-edge concepts at the show. We are excited that Storyboard is the graphic design tool suite behind a number of rich embedded GUIs and HMI experiences to be showcased at CES.

Our homes are rapidly becoming smarter and more connected, leading to increased comfort, convenience, and security. CES provides a great opportunity to showcase smart home technologies, and Storyboard Suite is behind exciting home automation demos at the event. NXP’s Internet of Tomorrow Tour will be rolling into Las Vegas, and will be hard to miss, given it’s a massive trailer housing over 100 demos. On board is the home automation demo designed for FTF2015 by Crank Software and Freescale. Atmel will also be demoing a home automation application designed with Storyboard Suite.

This isn’t an exhaustive list of Storyboard demos at CES. You’ll find other applications and exciting projects at the show with stunning GUIs designed and developed with Storyboard Suite.

You haven’t used Storyboard Suite. Yet. What? That’s sad. If you haven’t used Storyboard Suite for GUI design and development for your embedded application projects, you’ve been missing out on such great features as:

Photoshop import to kickstart your GUI design

Built-in simulator for prototyping

Animation Timeline to quickly and easily create and edit animations

You are using an earlier version of Storyboard Suite. That’s awesome. But your design process could be even further optimizedwith some of the new features and enhancements we’ve added in 4.0 and 4.1, for example:

Support for collaborative, team-based design and development

Improvements to the Storyboard Designer UI for a more intuitive and streamlined workflow

You already use Storyboard Suite 4.x but are hungry for more information. You might already be a Storyboard Suite 4.x champion, but you:

are curious to see if you’ve been missing out on features you aren’t aware of

Whether you’ve never used Storyboard Suite for your GUI design projects, or you are a long-time Crank customer, our October 29th webinar will be useful for you. If your job description includes designing GUIs for embedded devices, building applications for the IoT, or creating awesome user experiences for stuff with screens, you should attend. We promise not to assault you with slides. After a quick high-level overview of Storyboard Suite for those new to our software, we will dive into some engaging demos of the tool suite.

If you haven’t had a chance to use Storyboard Suite yet, feel free to download the fully functional free 30-day trial.

Thanks to our friends at Freescale, we now have a more in-depth video of Crank Software VP, Jason Clarke, showcasing all of the application demos at FTF featuring Storyboard Suite. Check out this more thorough look at the connected home application.

Smart homes lend convenience to busy households. Well-designed home automation interfaces allow homeowners to interact with and control their homes in ways that maximize convenience and savings.

If those demos leave you itching to test drive the new Storyboard Suite 4.1 for your next well-designed user interface, download the 30-day full featured evaluation version today.

Today, we are going back to basics in this Storyboard user interface (UI) tutorial. Table basics. Tables are a special control in Storyboard. While most controls are individual, tables are more like containers that organize several controls inside them. This tutorial will walk you through how to create a very simple table, add background colour, adjust basic settings, and add render extensions. Before we get started building our table, create a new application in Storyboard Designer.

Add a background colour for the application’s UI

First we’re going to add a background to our application.

Right-click on Screen1

Select Add

Select Control

Give your new control a name

In the Render Extensions list, select Fill

Select Finish

You will be asked to select a colour for your background. For the purposes of this tutorial, let’s select white.